Now through the end of June 10th, 2019, trespass the fiction of Erik T. Johnson for free, and anywhere in the world! His debut fiction collection, Yes Trespassing, a tome of over 120,000+ words, is available on Kindle for absolutely nothing. If you’ve ever thought of trespassing, now is the time.

To celebrate all things Chiral Mad (including exciting news that cannot yet be shared), each of the four volumes in the series are on sale April 29th through May 4th. eBook titles range from $0.99 / £0.99 to $1.99 / £1.99 in both the US and UK. In other words, you can get all four volumes of Chiral Mad (digitally) for about the price of a fancy coffee. Click on any of the images for direct eBook links.

CHIRAL MAD 4, an anthology of collaborations, is also available in hardback for $34.95 and trade paperback for $19.95. 4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders, but here’s the catch: every single part of this anthology is a collaboration, including a co-introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck & Janet Harriett. Bram Stoker Award winners Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even collaborated on the co-editing to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience. eBook sale links: US / UK.

CHIRAL MAD 3, an anthology of psychological horror, is also available in trade paperback for $17.95. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, the third act contains 45 illustrations throughout by Glenn Chadbourne, over 20 stories by the likes of Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Mort Castle, Josh Malerman, and Richard Chizmar, 20 intertwined poems by the likes of Elizabeth Massie, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, and Stephanie M. Wytovich, as well as an introduction on the state of horror by Chuck Palahaniuk. eBook sale links: US / UK.

CHIRAL MAD 2, the sophomore set, is also available in trade paperback for $16.95. This anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, James Chambers, Usman T. Malik, Emily B. Cataneo, John Skipp, Gary McMahon, and many others. The book also features the Bram Stoker Award-winning novelette “The Great Pity” by Gary A. Braunbeck. eBook sale links: US / UK.

CHIRAL MAD, the book that started it all, is also available in trade paperback for $16.95, and contains twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of Gord Rollo, Monica J. O’Rourke, Patrick Lacey, Meghan Arcuri, Christian A. Larsen, Jeff Strand, John Palisano, Jack Ketchum (his first of four appearances in the series), and many others, along with an introduction on asymmetry by Thomas F. Monteleone. eBook sale links: US / UK.

1̶0̶ 8 copies remain of Unnerving’s signed / limited hardback release of Oversight by Michael Bailey, featuring the novelettes “Darkroom” and “SAD Face.” Only 60 of these books were ever printed, and Written Backwards happens to have the last of them. Pretty little collectibles. If you want a one, click any of the images …

Once these are gone, they are gone. There will not be another printing.

Each of the two stories are still available as individual eBooks, if you’re the eReader type. You can get them on Kindle from Unnerving here: Darkroom, and here: SAD Face.

“Darkroom” – After living most of her life blindfolded-for fear of what she might see-Grace shifts though time in a series of strange experiments involving old-fashioned black-and-white photography in order to create a flipbook of her father aging in reverse. Near completion of her project, and no longer able to go through with it on her own, she brings along her likewise blindfolded and temporarily deafened sister-for fear of what they might also hear in their travels-and together they take snapshots, wandering their childhood home, hand-in-hand, albeit with added disabilities to protect them from that which doesn’t hide so well in the past. The undeveloped, they soon discover, what they’d forgotten of their troubled youth, is perhaps more frightening than what they later develop in the darkroom.

“SAD Face” – Yuliya dons a prosthetic face designed to help her cope with Social Anxiety Disorder, the essential oil infused mask not only disguising her expression, but the wet city stench as it soothes. Time, it can only stop when someone takes a photo, and that’s what they did, whoever made it-took her picture and made her a mask to hide behind whenever social phobia bullied her. A dead-face: expressionless, eyes only visible through open sockets, mouth slightly parted; the way she imagined she’d look the day she died. And now, whenever someone sees her-stares at her-wearing her Yuliya mask, they are looking at her past. Yet behind her SAD face, she sometimes finds confidence, until she takes it off and attempts to uncover the woman hiding beneath.

Now through April 21st, Written Backwards is hosting a short fiction sale. 6 books, 600,000 words, all for under 6 bucks. In other words, 6 books for under a buck (each) in both the US and UK. Time to fill up your Kindles!

All titles are also available for free through Kindle Unlimited, or are free if you’ve already purchased the paperback through Amazon. Simply click the book covers below for direct links in the US, or follow the links after each title if you’re in the UK.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Features illustrations throughout by gak, an introduction / novelette by Norman Partridge (nominated for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction), an afterword by Mary SanGiovanni, as well as photography and the interconnecting tale “The Librarian” by the editor. Also available in the UK for only £0.99.

Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Michael Bailey brings you a genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry, with fiction illustrated throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, poetry and spot illustrations by Orion Zangara, cover artwork by George C. Cotronis, and an introduction on humanness by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson. Also includes the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novelette “The Jupiter Drop” by Josh Malerman. Also available in the UK for only £0.99.

A literary blend of science fiction and horror, and the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award. Includes short stories, novelettes, and poetry from established authors and newcomers from around the world, such as the Bram Stoker Award-winning stories “The Vaporization Enthalphy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik, and “Ruminations” by Rena Mason. Also available in the UK for only £0.99.

Note that due to contractual obligations, the eBook edition does not include Stephen King’s short story “The Jaunt,” which is included in the trade paperback edition.

Twenty-five, or maybe twenty-six or -seven or perhaps twenty-eight (let’s say it’s twenty-eight) individual works by Erik T. Johnson, some previously-published, some appearing for the first time, stories like “The Leaf” and “Krug’s Pen,” “The Depopulation Syndrome,” “The Invention of the Mask” (which you can find on the front cover), “The Depopulation Syndrome” and the novella Scissors Seldom Come. Trespass. Read the horror, the wonder, the mindscrewing. Also available in the UK for only £0.99.

Fourteen stories from the intersection of pain and anxiety, rage and fear by Paul Michael Anderson, illustrated throughout by Pat R. Steiner. Triumph and tragedy, terror and transformation. Includes an introduction by Damien Angelica Walters and and afterword by Bracken MacLeod. Also available in the UK for only £0.99.

From the mind of award-winning author and editor Michael Bailey comes Inkblots and Blood Spots, a painfully beautiful collection of short stories and poetry that reaches deep into the imagination, breaking hearts and boundaries along the way. Includes the novelette “Dandelion Clocks,” illustrations and cover artwork by Daniele Serra, and an introduction by Douglas E. Winter. Also available in the UK for only £0.99.

If you feel like making a donation to Written Backwards (even just a dollar), know that your money will be going to a good cause: helping an independent writer, editor, and publisher survive in this cruel world.

The following eBooks are on sale in the US and UK from February 1st through the 8th: Qualia Nous (anthology), Adam’s Ladder (anthology), and Other Music (novel by Marc Levinthal). For cheap, snag the following:

A literary blend of science fiction and horror, Qualia Nous contains short stories, novelettes, and poetry from established authors and newcomers from around the world.

“0-1” (Introduction) by Michael Bailey

“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik (winner of the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction)

“The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill

“Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman

“The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles” by Emily B. Cataneo

“The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson

“Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge

“Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn

“Second Chance” by John R. Little

“The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley

“Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle

“The Price of Faces” by James Chambers

“Simulacrum” by Jason V Brock

“Shutdown” (poem) by Marge Simon

“Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag

“Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen

“The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III

“Tomorrow’s Femme” (poem) by Marge Simon

“The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas

“Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper

“A New Man” by William F. Nolan

“Voyeur” by John Everson

“Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner

“In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Michael Anderson

“Dura Mater” by Lucy A. Snyder

“Ruminations” by Rena Mason (winner of the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction)

“Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone

“Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald

“Breathe You In Me” by Mason Bundschuh

“18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie

“No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck

Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award, and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Due to contractual obligations / limitations, the eBook edition does not contain “The Jaunt” by Stephen King. Also available in trade paperback for $14.95. Fiction / poetry; 448 pages; 9×6 format.

The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.

“Ch-Ch-Changes” by Chaz Brenchley

“Filigree, Minotaur, Cyanide, Bloom” by Damien Angelica Walters

“How He Helped” by Ramsey Campbell

“Spirits” by Gene O’Neill

“The Mythic Hero Most Likely to Squeeze a Stone” by B.E. Scully

“My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” by John Langan

“Undersound” by Mark Morris

“A Laughing Matter” by Erinn L. Kemper

“The Serile” by Paul Meloy

“Eyes of the Beholders” by Lisa Morton

“Strings” by Tim Lebbon

“Sliced Bread” by Jeffrey Thomas

“I Will Be the Making of You” by Rena Mason

“Nameless Citizen” by Brian Evenson

“Painting the Burning Fence” by Roberta Lannes

“Pity This Busy Monster Not” by Scott Edelman

“An End to Perpetual Motion” by Mark Samuels

“Swift to Chase” by Laird Barron

Finalist for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year / IndieFAB. Also available in trade paperback for $14.95. Fiction; 304 pages; 9×6 format.

With the discovery of the Thompson Corridors, the universe has been opened up, connecting humankind with a vast network of sentient species. Xenosociologist Jesse Suzuki, a nanotech-rejuvenated “oldster,” has joined the forced exodus of the newly young, mandated by law to ship out through the Corridors after his 80th birthday. Jesse finds his way to Eastlink, a sprawling human habitat orbiting Shjodathz, home to a race of regenerating beings who maintain direct memory of all their past incarnations. While studying the Shjodathí and their planetary biomachine guardian Kedel, he discovers a strange anomaly within the AI’s mind that leads him on a perilous, mind-blowing adventure.

The debut solo novel by Marc Levinthal is also available in trade paperback for $12.95. Fiction; 182 pages; 9×6 format; cover artwork by George C. Cotronis; introduction by John Skipp; interior artwork by Michael Bailey.